And be careful with "dd" aka disk distroyer. Make double sure of your /dev/sd??or you might end with: see aka.dd carries no warning!

I usually use something like live Clonzilla or Parted Magic usually. I am usually pretty careful for a Knuckle Dragging Neanderthal Tattooed Linux using Harley rider who does not make his living working IT but instead make my money tuning and building and repairing Motorcycles in my own building/shop/Quonset Hut steel Building.

# blkid/dev/sda1: LABEL="PQSERVICE" UUID="84C0247FC0247996" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda2: LABEL="SYSTEM RESERVED" UUID="9C2425202424FF40" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda3: LABEL="Acer" UUID="6AC2CA02C2C9D28D" TYPE="ntfs" /dev/sda5: UUID="26a54718-3581-4c8b-958a-a03d4ce2b96f" TYPE="swap" /dev/sda7: UUID="a6ae8d53-ff84-420d-93f2-820aeee3722a" TYPE="ext4" /dev/sda6: UUID="9b2b59c3-470f-4a0f-82d0-9c933bc0ca4a" TYPE="ext4" This latop is for tuning bikes. Hence the Windows 7 on the drive. If I decided to use just dd to create a backup or whatever and I have used PUDD in Puppy to clone a netbook 8gig internal XP SSD drive to external 8 gig Camera SD flash drive. Anyways. It would go something like this. Me being a bull in a china cabinet and all.

1. Boot up your Live cd or dvd of your choice2. Open a terminal window on the Desktop/Window Manager.3. su into root. Then password.4. Plug in some external drive. Do not mount that sucker yet. If Automounted. Unmount that Puppy.5. use fdisk or blkid to get /dev/sdx number so no mistakes are made in the next steps.6. Lets say that the external drive was shown as a folder as /media/disk as that is the usual/norm

dd if=/dev/sda | gzip -c >/media/disk/system-image.gzThe above should copy,compress,stuff like the bootloader/partitions/and partition tables of your whole hardrive sda. Including Windows if dualbooting. So make sure you use a good size external drive before doing this. I have a 1 TB drive for stuff like this.

If I like the resolution. I try and find what controls startup for my Windows Manager or Desktop Environment and add that line to the startup.It is just easier for me than editing /etc/X11/xorg.conf as certain distros are now coming out without a default /etc/X11/xorg.conf. They use a/etc/X11/xorg.conf.d

For other trouble shooting besides using glxgears or whatever is normal for dri stuff.

cat /var/log/Xorg.0.log | grep -i "dri" | grep -v -i "driver"in conjunction with the inxi -G command. I show how to install inxi in the how to section of this forum. It is just a information gathering script that does notinstall anything. I help out H2 just a very little bit with checking smxi and sgfxi scripts also in AntiX.

One of the streaming rock radio stations I listen to.It is a Australia based site but a Texas DJ I know online who works there in Collaboration with the guy from downunder told me about it. I use the winamp .pls to stream through xmms in my Zenwalk media player desktop computer via a 200 watt per channel amplifier through the motor cycle shop ceiling speakers.

In TestDisk it's labeled 'MBR code: Write MBR code to first sector' and it needs to be run on an unmounted partition. Best practice is from the Mepis LiveDisk or PartedMagic or similar bootable LiveDisk.

I'm pretty sure it used to be labeled MSDOS boot code. Or at least something slightly less cryptic. However it will repair an MBR from the Mepis LiveDVD.I prefer one of the tools such as PartedMagic as it is labeled to be more easily understood. But there are many tools for repairing the MBR to an MSDOS state.Just to repair an MBR to boot Linux is very easily done by Mepis and it's System Assistant (in Mepis 11). In the beta you'll need to use the update-grub command.